Kemper Pit

Producer in Kemper county in Mississippi, United States with commodity Clay
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10195257
MAS/MILS ID 0280690024
Record type Site
Current site name Kemper Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -88.78035, 32.86656 (WGS84)
Elevation 140
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kemper(county)

Mississippi(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lynville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

De Kalb(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Meridian(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sucarnoochee(hydrologic unit)

Mobile Bay-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Mississippi Kemper

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Choctaw 012 N 015 E 29 NWNENE Mississippi

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) Wilcox formation

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Presley Construction, Inc.
    ID 2200458
    Year 1979

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MSHA LISTING 5-18-81.

  • Deposit

    MSHA INSPECTION REPORT 12-4-80.

  • Deposit

    LOCATION BY MSHA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-NOV-83 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 09/06/1988
MSHA mine ID2200458
Mine name (MSHA)Kemper Pits
Current operatorHarold Lee & Sons Lime Company Inc
Current controller (parent)Harold Lee Sr
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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